SUNDAY PICTURES

Northern Advocate, 7 August 1934, Page 2

SUNDAY PICTURES

i SHOULD THEY BE HELD? MAYOR’S WARNING. “AVORK WOULD COMB NEXT.” Should there be pictures on Sunday.’ The question was ventilated last evening, when, after the conclusion of business at the annual meeting of the AAMiangarei- Municipal Silver Band (Inc.), the meeting was turned into a social. In proposing the toast to the municipality, Mr. G. Reid referred to the Sunday concerts. These, he said, could lie made very enjoyable and could be a good source of revenue. However, he did not think some of the items should have been staged on Sunday. He was fond of music, and thought that the band should approach the Borough Council to be allowed to continue the concerts, with fit programmes. “Cut out the rough stuff and nonsense, ” he added. “1 did not think policy would come into the toast,” said the Mayor, “I think the speaker was under a. misapprehension, for the Borough Council has never refused the baud permission ) to hold a Sunday concert. It is only the picture part of the programme ■which avc stopped.” Mr. Jones said there was at present a controversy raging throughout the country on the question of pictures on Sunday. It Avas suggested that, in many, cases, the bauds Averc being used to draAv croAvds to the pictures on Sundays, because it Avas the best night in the Aveek for them. He believed, hoAvever, that if a picture, in the opinion of the council, AA r as lit to be slioavii, the council Avould not object to it. But lie would never A’otc for open pictures on Sunday for tiie personal gain of the picture pro- j prictors. There Avas nothing personal in his yemarks, as he considered both picture show managers in AVhangarei were gentlemen. Mr. Jones issued a Avarning. Sunday, he said, Avas the greatest institution ini the Avorld, and lie believed that if once the traditional day of rest Avas broken by indiscriminate picture programmes, the next thing Avould be Avork on Sundays.